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A Free Press For A Free People Since 1997Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:41:24 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6Amnesty will change the character of Americahttp://www.wnd.com/2014/11/amnesty-will-change-the-character-of-america/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/amnesty-will-change-the-character-of-america/#respondSun, 23 Nov 2014 21:26:13 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1449435President Obama has finally delivered on one promise.

Change.

In granting 5 million illegal immigrants amnesty, President Obama changed the country. To use his words, he has “fundamentally transformed” America.

The president’s decision will lead to more illegal immigration, not less.

That’s what happens.

As soon as people know you’re a soft touch, they take advantage. We saw it happen in Australia. The moment tough love was administered, the people stopped.

Here’s what a real leader would do. He would say: “We will determine who comes into this country, and the circumstances under which they come. If you come to America illegally, you will never ever get to stay. You will never be an American. We will send you home. Period.” Then prospective illegals would know that they will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero results.

Obama’s bad policy will only put more people at risk, including those crossing the border every day.

But let’s leave all that aside for the moment. Let’s talk about the change coming to America.

The president changed America because he just added 5 million people – and the prospect of millions more.

Will these people change the country? Will the American people become different?

No one dare speak of it, not even Republicans, for fear of being branded a racist. But it must be said.

Most people who are obsessed about America are fascinated by the physical: the cars, the movies, the cities, the landmarks, the sports and the landscape. I love all of those. But what captures me most is the people.

Anyone who visits America knows Americans are the friendliest, kindest, most hospitable, most generous, most courteous and helpful people in the world.

If I were to run out of gas in the middle of the night, I would feel more confident knocking on the door of an American home than one in any other country I know – including my own.

But I think this will change.

The people who are here illegally, and those who will come as America’s illegal-alien population continues to grow, will eventually change the American character. They already see that their illegal activity bears fruit.

Many of them come from cruder cultures and foreign tradition, with values that are not in sync with Western, Judeo-Christian values. It might not be politically correct to say it, but it’s true.

Americans must also consider the democratic implications of President Obama’s amnesty offer. In 2000, George W. Bush won the election by just 537 votes in Florida. Millions of voters will change not just the culture, but also politics. Some may say it sounds conspiratorial, but I do not, for one second, believe that election arithmetic did not factor in this partisan president’s decision.

Populations are on the move. Western countries’ borders are under attack everywhere. Time for honesty from the left: How many millions do we really want, and how will they change this country?

It’s also time for the president and Congress to secure the border, followed by meaningful reforms.

The Australian government response to Ebola contrasts starkly to the American one – in approach and outcome, in doing what is right and necessary as opposed to what is incompetent and politically correct.

Consider this.

Australia has issued a blanket visa ban on Ebola-hit countries.

Australia has also refused repeated requests to send medical personnel to help battle the outbreak on the ground.

It has also not recorded a single case of Ebola.

The immigration minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, said: “These measures include temporarily suspending our immigration program, including our humanitarian program from Ebola-affected countries, and this means we are not processing any application from these affected countries.”

All non-permanent or temporary visas were being canceled and permanent visa holders who had not yet arrived in Australia will be required to submit to a 21-day quarantine period, he added.

Bravo. That’s leadership.

Meanwhile, tragically, incompetence and political correctness is spreading Ebola in America.

Author of “Ebola,” David Quammen, said on CNN: “You can’t isolate neighborhoods. You can’t isolate nations. It doesn’t work. And people talk about, well, we shouldn’t allow any flights in from Liberia. I mean, we in America, how dare we turn our backs on Liberia given the fact that this is a country that was founded in the 1820s, 1830s because of American slavery. We have a responsibility to stay connected with them and help them see this through.”

One wonders if Quammen is volunteering to go to West Africa or offering to house the New York doctor who has Ebola.

Or this pearl, straight from Chapter 4 of the left’s playbook, from Harvard professor Joia Mukherjee:

“It’s easy for the world – the powerful world, who are largely non-African, non-people of color – to ignore the suffering of poor, black people,” she said on PRI’s “The World” last month. It’s easy, she said, to “other-ize” the Ebola crisis.

See? These are precisely the people and the mentality we are dealing with.

As Ebola victims are largely black and poor, it is “politically incorrect” for America to take steps to shield its own nation.

I’m still waiting for a gay, disabled, vegan, feminist, Ecuadorian wind turbine engineer to be in favor of stopping flights from West Africa.

Political correctness leads to timidity. Timidity is the disease of modern politics. We need a total lack of timidity. This is exactly what I talk about in my book “The American Boomerang.” Political correctness and its spawn, an open-borders mentality, both at the heart of progressivism, are an enormous obstacle, the greatest obstacle to an American renaissance.

The president has successfully implemented progressive ideals, enabling a country to experience the consequences of unbridled government expansion and identity politics in its purest form.

America, you need to protect your borders.

Nothing is more paramount than your health.

There will be backlash. The Australian government has come under steady and sustained attack from health experts, rights advocates and the center-left for its position on Ebola.

]]>http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/ebola-australia-says-no/feed/0With ISIS arrests, Australians wishing they had gunshttp://www.wnd.com/2014/09/with-isis-arrests-australians-wishing-they-had-guns/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/with-isis-arrests-australians-wishing-they-had-guns/#respondThu, 18 Sep 2014 23:14:35 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1244395Never before have I felt so naked.

Now more than ever, I wish I was armed.

And I’m not alone.

Any and all home-grown Islamic terrorism should be able, if need be, to be met by a well-armed civilian militia. The United Kingdom has had two beheadings of members of the public in the last two years, with neither police nor civilians able to prevent it. It has prohibitive gun laws.

With news of the ISIS plot to randomly abduct members of the Australian public and behead them, Australian sentiment on guns is dramatically shifting.

It appears Australians are finally understanding the importance of gun ownership and craving it at a time when the world is increasingly unsafe.

“I’ll tell you this point blank: I’d feel safer in a country where I was legally allowed to carry around a firearm,” says J. Coughran, 30, a businessman.

According to Coughran, media coverage of Islamic State is fueling the change in heart.

“This ISIS stuff is seeing quite a few people changing their opinions.. one of my mates told me today- he’s coming around on the gun issue. He’s 68 years old, been against guns his whole life- now he’s turning around because of these savages,” he said.

With Islamic supremacism a mainstream interpretation of Islam, deeply rooted in Islamic scripture and endorsed by many of Islam’s most influential scholars, Australians are beginning to understand the nature of the Islamic threat and studying their own weaknesses.

Australians are looking to America, and not the U.K. for guidance.

With this sort of threat, the normal calculus of a civilized society with a small, armed (or unarmed) police force upon which the citizens are forced to rely, no longer adds up.

Kyle, 33, believes that Australian gun control is only making Islamic terrorists in Australia safer, and their objectives easier to achieve.

“Our lack of self-defense makes us a prime target,” he said. “It is no surprise to me that homegrown terrorism is most rampant in nations with strict gun control. These guys want to snatch random people in Australia off the street, drape them in the ISIS flag and behead them on camera with an Arabic-emblazoned sword.”

He said, “If I had a gun, I’ll tell you what I’d do with those swords.”

It is times like these that Americans should thank God that they have the Second Amendment and crush any effort or force seeking to weaken or remove it.

Right now, they are the envy of a growing number of Australians who wish they were armed.

This question is renewed with each anniversary of the fateful September morning that saw evil rock the cradle of liberty.

It is a perfectly legitimate question, yet one that yields vastly different answers. An Arab will answer it differently than a Frenchman, and a socialist differently than an atheist. But in all of their answers, divergent as they may appear, there is glue.

Of course, many foreigners admire, appreciate and love America. But there is widespread genuine hostility for America. The underlying cause of all international animosity is simpler than what you might think.

It’s culture.

See, America is not just a nation. It’s an idea. And an idea will always engender stronger emotions than a geographic entity. And here’s the rub: It’s a conservative idea in a world of socialism.

Any visitor knows that the center of gravity of American opinion is much further to the right than any other place. Any historian knows that from its founding to its current mainstream values, America is the heart of conservatism.

As if this weren’t enough to raise the ire of the chattering classes, there’s also the fact that it just happens to be the most powerful, wealthiest, innovative and successful country the world has ever seen. Uh-oh. Houston, we have a problem. Envy is corrosive and leads to the most ridiculous assertions.

On a recent trip to Europe, I was repeatedly informed that Americans are fat and stupid. Yet in 2012, in the same week, America topped the Olympic Games medal tally and landed on Mars. Go figure that one, you noodle-armed, surrender monkeys.

But back to culture. Which is inextricably linked to politics. Put simply, America’s cultural conservatism is profoundly at odds with liberal or progressive agendas. Consider each and every major social or economic philosophy of Western nations (even English-speaking ones) and America and contrast.

They believe in a collectivist society; Americans in the individual. They subscribe to radical multiculturalism; the American in E Pluribus Unum and patriotism. They believe in more government and greater regulation; Americans in the least possible. They don’t like the concept of the nation-state; the American is strident in his dislike of a supra-national body such as the U.N. They seek intervention in markets; Americans are the purest of capitalists. They support Palestine; Americans Israel. They don’t like Christianity or religion; the American is the most religious man of the West. They consider only government employees worthy of being armed; America was founded on the opposite premise. You get the point.

Sure, there is paradox and inconsistency. If there weren’t, President Obama wouldn’t be president. But the exception, no matter how stark, does not disprove the rule. Conservative values are American values.

And culture is everything. It shapes attitudes, lifestyles and actions. America, fittingly, behaves as an individual on the world stage, prepared to act without consensus. It is a red-blooded alpha male (another demographic the chattering class despise) in a room of Schwarzenegger-named international girlie-men.

Americans have simplistic and uncompromising convictions that bring enormous discomfort to people of other societies. To Americans, the world is black and white. There are good guys and there are bad guys. And the bad guys must be eliminated. It’s a bit like in “The Expendables.” It runs deep: In real America, men still behave like men, and women have retained their femininity. Tradition still exists, and people still go to church on Sunday. It is why it’s said that a love of America runs in the DNA of every conservative in the world.

Frankly, it’s a more normal place.

But to the developed world shaped by urban voter opinions, unions and all-powerful intelligentsia, the cultural conservatism and religiosity of America is incomprehensible and offends deeply. To them, it’s oafish, backward, discriminatory, simple and awful. It’s politically correct intolerance.

It’s still the greatest nation on earth, but there sure are lots of bad guys to deal with.

A president relentless in seeing America become Europe, working in conjunction with a growing cabal of elites, holding schools, universities and media captive, by waging an internal culture war, is determined to re-badge America. America drowning in debt and falling behind its own potential. The evil and savage Islamic State beheading Americans and determined to achieve a caliphate, making incredible territorial progress. Russian President Vladimir Putin attempting to recreate the old Soviet Empire. China advancing. All while America is retreating in the world and dismantling its military.

But it will come back the same way it did after the early defeats by Britain in the War of Independence, Pearl Harbor, the loss of the Philippines and the days following 9/11. It has a boomerang spirit. The American people have an uncanny resolve.

In its inevitable comeback, it must never forget the events of 13 years ago. Nor should it forget its cultural superiority. It’s the human experiment of our lifetime, and God is on America’s side. Semper Fi.

]]>http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/why-they-hate-you-americans/feed/0Australian PM now leads the free worldhttp://www.wnd.com/2014/09/australian-pm-now-leads-the-free-world/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/australian-pm-now-leads-the-free-world/#respondWed, 03 Sep 2014 23:25:24 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1200395The wait for President Obama to act against ISIS is like watching paint dry.

For six years, Americans have had a president who has been slow, weak-willed and nervous.

He has spoken softly and carried a big putter.

And the entire world has suffered as a result.

The advance of Russia, China and ISIS is the result of weak or absent American leadership. Nothing proves America’s indispensability more than the current state of the world.

With President Obama on walkabout, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has become the default leader of the free world.

In the past months, he has aggressively challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin, unequivocally condemned Hamas and has been forceful about the responsibility to tackle the “pure evil” of the Islamic State. He has fearlessly spoken about the need “to advance the values of the West.”

His words have been strong and clear. His instinct and judgment flawless.

Now, he is once again leading on the response to Western-born jihadists.

While announcing the toughest measures yet of any Western nation, Abbott said that everyone that migrates to or lives in Australia must be on “Team Australia” and “that everyone has got to put this country, its interests, its values and its people first.”

The measures include:

the immediate arrest and prosecution of returning fighters;

the set-up of new, additional counter-terrorism units at major airports;

canceling passports or not providing passports to people who had received adverse security assessments.

“If you are in Iraq or Syria, leave. If you are planning to go, don’t,” the Australian foreign minister said.

The move has already allowed authorities to intercept a “person of interest.”

At a time when America’s position in the world is collapsing, the firm leadership of Australia in response to matters at home (including the scrapping of the carbon tax) and abroad should be mirrored by a feckless American president.

In the past seven months, not one single illegal immigrant arrived on Australian shores. Not one single boat has docked on the Australian coastline.

Compare this to the preceding four year period: Over 50,000 illegal immigrants arrived on Australian shores. More than 800 boats. Upwards of 1,000 people drowned at sea. A budget blowout of more than $10.3 billion.

And the overwhelming majority of those that came were not genuine refugees; many of them turned up in designer clothes and with mobile phones. They weren’t fleeing persecution; they just wanted a piece of Australia’s generous welfare state.

Frighteningly, some of them appeared to be Western haters, with one incident captured on video: One illegal immigrant, upset to have been intercepted by the Australian military, told the military to “”F–- Australia. … If later on you said why they do that to America on September 11, you should know the cause of it is your very deeds. Remember 9/11 for United States. All the world should know why.”

It was a mess.

It happened because a center-left government (the equivalent of the Democrats), elected in late 2007, decided to dismantle the existing tough and effective border security policy. They made the usual self-righteous left-wing claims that the existing policies were inhumane, immoral and sent the wrong message. While never brave enough to say it, their actions said it all: They believed in open borders.

And so they presided over more than 1,000 deaths at sea and were a boon to the evil people-smugglers all over Southeast Asia. Not only did their policy fail; it killed people.

The Australian people silently revolted. They saw them, rightly, as “queue-jumpers” and believed it was unfair to genuine refugees (Australia already has a generous refugee intake) and those seeking to come the right way. They were devastated at the deaths of men, women and children on the high seas, who had been encouraged to take the perilous journey. And they were concerned about how much money this fiasco was costing. Not to mention the fact we didn’t know who these people were. Were they compatible with our way of life?

So, they threw out the government at the national election in September 2013. One of the incoming government’s core election promises was to “stop the boats.” Immediately, Prime Minister Tony Abbott got to work.

As he couldn’t stop the boats overnight, in those first few months, his government gave the illegal immigrants arriving to Australia two options: “You’ve arrived in Australia illegally. As a result, you will never get to stay here. You will never get to be an Australian. So, you have two options – we will take you to a processing center, and you will wait in detention for your asylum application to be processed. Or we will fly you home for free.”

In addition to this, the Abbott government got the Australian military to enforce its border protection, intercepting boats, turning them around, and even towing them back. And it applied pressure on Indonesia, by demanding it secure its own border.

Soon, the message got out, and the boats have stopped. It’s an ongoing issue that requires vigilance, but it has been achieved. Australia’s policy has been exceptionally effective in saving lives. It’s been done amid incessant howling from the left and the mainstream media.

The successful Australian model is one America must learn from. It shows what can happen when you develop a policy and adhere to it strictly, with no exceptions.

Instead of praising Australia on gun laws, President Obama should be praising Australia’s border security.

Obama needs to toughen up. He needs to begin dispensing leadership, here and abroad. He needs to say: “We will determine who comes into this country, and the circumstances under which they come.” He needs to say: “If you come to America illegally, you will never ever get to stay. You will never be an American. We will send you home. Period.” Illegals should be aware that they will have risked plenty and spent a lot for zero result. He needs to get the National Guard down there to do its job. He needs to demand that Mexico police its own border, and if not, threaten them with trade sanctions.

That’s real leadership.

What can be more humanitarian than saving the thousands of people’s lives who die crossing the border? What can be more humanitarian than ensuring the safety of 300 million Americans?

Populations are on the move. Western countries’ borders are under attack everywhere. Time for honesty from the left: how many millions do we really want, and how will they change this country?

The illegals are being clever now sending their children. This is happening all around the world. It does not matter what their age; send them back. It’s time to administer tough love.

It’s the only way. Australia has proved it. Now, it’s time for America, the world’s leader and indispensable nation, to do the same.

]]>http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/australia-has-zero-illegals-coming-in-heres-how/feed/0The boomerang the world's waiting forhttp://www.wnd.com/2014/07/the-boomerang-the-worlds-waiting-for/
http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/the-boomerang-the-worlds-waiting-for/#respondThu, 03 Jul 2014 23:44:10 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=1017175Americans have the chance to “begin the world all over again.”

In many ways, they did.

In many ways, they need to again.

America must unite, and this is what must be done:

end the waste;

pay back the debt;

limit the government;

ax political correctness;

keep the peace through unquestioned military power.

Under this president, America has, as we say in Australia, gone walkabout.

The Obama administration has been a monumental failure. America is less respected, weaker and more politically correct because of the Obama presidency. The president appears sheepish about American power and seems to want to diminish American influence.

This administration appears more interested in the chance of polar bears sweating than crushing tyrants, and Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed as much when he identified the greatest national security threat to America to be “climate change.”

This administration is the first not seeking to improve America, but to “fundamentally transform it.”

What does this mean?

I’m often asked why a non-American is so invested in ensuring America is strong by remaining the country it has traditionally been, and preserving the role it has traditionally played.

To me, the answer more than ever before is obvious. It comes as no surprise that at a time when America is retreating and reducing its military footprint, Russia, China and radical Islamists are aggressively expanding.

America is not perfect, but it is the best thing we have.

Without a robust America, the world is a weak and dangerous place.

Consequences of a fallen America would include:

The recreation of the former Russian/Soviet empire;

Islamists would take over many Muslim-majority countries;

Terrorism would reign, entirely unhinged and unimpaired;

Potential nuclear war in the Middle East as Iran attempts to destroy Israel.

Let it be clear: It is in the interests of everyone that America remains capable of subduing evil. America is the only country capable of keeping civilization, of being the guardian against chaos. From its founding, America has seen itself as having a moral mission.

I firmly believe that saving America is the greatest moral imperative of our time.

Decline is a choice, not a condition. If conservative Americans can match their actions with their principles, then there will be a renaissance. America will boomerang.

It’s time for a conservative revolution. Don’t raise the white flag; raise the red, white and blue one.

Let’s forge a new American generation that guarantees the American Dream for another 200 years.

There are just as many guns on the street today. Gun crime is no lower. In Australia, mass shootings have been a rare event. If strict gun laws mean no massacres, explain Britain’s Cumbria shootings, Monkseaton and Dunblane – or Anders Breivik of Norway.

Gun laws achieve very little.

Mass shootings are about illness, not guns. Any other so-called “gun issue,” if there are any, is related to the breakdown of the family, cultural decline and the age of entitlement.

The Second Amendment defines American exceptionalism. It speaks to the character of America, and reflects why America is America.

Civilian disarmament is based on the assumption that people are irresponsible (unless they work for the government). America was founded on the opposite premise.

Don’t make America a namby-pamby society.

The right to bear arms is neither wrong nor unnecessary. It is:

the greatest test of genuine freedom,

the best protection of you, your family and your property,

and the ultimate deterrent against government overreach.

The constitutional right to bear arms is pivotal. The American idea is a value system. If you take away the guns of America, you take away America.

Mr. President, your country is the one the world relies on. Right now it is at a tipping point.

Forget guns.

Focus on ending the waste, paying back the debt, limiting the government and axing political correctness. That’s how you’ll get America to boomerang.

Your country is the greatest in the world, and respectfully, Sir, you should stop apologizing for it. Keep it up, and America will be just another European state. And that’s not good for anyone.

Yours sincerely,

Nick Adams

]]>http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/an-australians-open-letter-to-obama/feed/0Drone-strike success credited to Australian basehttp://www.wnd.com/2013/07/drone-strike-success-credited-to-australian-base/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/drone-strike-success-credited-to-australian-base/#respondSun, 28 Jul 2013 22:55:23 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=485015SYDNEY, Australia – The Pine Gap spy base in outback Australia is pivotal to the U.S. drone-strike program that has killed key al-Qaida and Taliban leaders, Australian media have revealed.

Australian media has reported a primary function of the satellite base is “to track the precise ‘geolocation’ of radio signals, including hand-held radios and mobile phones, from the Middle East across Asia to China, North Korea and the Russian far east.”

Pine Gap communicates the intelligence to the drone program and military operational units.

”The [Taliban] know we’re listening, but they still have to use radios and phones to conduct their operations, they can’t avoid that,” the former employee said. “We track them, we combine the signals intelligence with imagery, and once we’ve passed the geolocation intelligence on, our job is done. When drones do their job, we don’t need to track that target anymore.”

The news has been met with support.

Jack Johnson, a resident of Alice Springs said: “It is great that Pine Gap is playing a role in eradicating the extremist nuts that wish to blow us up. May they keep going, I say. I couldn’t care less what the bleeding heart lefties think. We need to be get rid of these people.”

Situated strategically about 10 miles out of Alice Springs in the deep outback, it controls America’s spy satellites as they pass over the one third of the globe that includes China, parts of Russia and Middle East oil fields. Central Australia was chosen because it was too remote for spy ships passing in international waters to intercept the signal.

Pine Gap controls a set of geostationary satellites positioned above the Indian Ocean and Indonesia. The satellites orbit the Earth at a fixed point above the equator and are able to locate the origin of radio signals to within as little as 10 meters. Pine Gap processes the data and can provide targeting information to U.S. and allied military units within minutes.

The drone program is said to have successfully eliminated several thousand al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed that Pine Gap was part of the NSA collection program “X-Keyscore” and PRISM surveillance.

]]>http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/drone-strike-success-credited-to-australian-base/feed/0Australia: Illegals not welcomehttp://www.wnd.com/2013/07/australia-illegals-not-welcome/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/australia-illegals-not-welcome/#respondSat, 27 Jul 2013 23:38:21 +0000http://wp.wnd.com/?p=487229SYDNEY, Australia – Australia has announced a hardline illegal immigration policy – probably the toughest in the Western world – and by doing so has set up a showdown with international law and human rights groups, earned the ire of major world associations, and drawn out the naysayers from the United Nations.

That contrasts with the U.S. policy of lax border enforcement and casual deporting standards. In fact, President Obama is lobbying for a strategy that would “legalize” millions of illegal aliens who already are living in the U.S. and taking advantage of its social programs.

Rudd’s pre-election message is that Australia’s borders are closed to illegal arrivals. The announcement was made at a joint press conference with the prime minister from Papua New Guinea.

“From now on, any asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat will have no chance of being settled in Australia as a refugee,” Rudd told reporters.

This would be the equivalent of America sending all just-caught arriving illegals from now on to Bolivia, and stating that because of the circumstances under which they originally came, they will never have a chance to be settled in America.

“I understand that this is a very hard line decision,” Rudd continued.

“But our responsibility as a government is to ensure that we have a robust system of border security and orderly migration…”

“It is absolutely immoral for Australia, a rich country, to refuse to do the right thing and instead try and dump the problem, and to dump thousands of vulnerable people into an impoverished country,” Milne said.